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BENBEN STONE

Long ago, the men of Meracydia built great stone monuments in the image of Benben, a mound of myth whose name means “eternity.” This object is the top piece of such a structure, but none can say how it came to be in the dark depths of a faraway sea─or why it has legs.

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Gargoyle figure, Notre Dame Cathedral by Mikel Bilbao

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“The word Abraxas was engraved on certain antique stones, called Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms by Gnostic sects. The image most associated with Abraxas is that of a composite creature with the head of a rooster, the body of a man, and legs made of serpents or scorpions; carrying a whip and shield. The Gnostics identified Abraxas with Yahweh (under the Greek form "IAO"). Amulets and seals bearing the figure of Abraxas were popular in the 2nd century, and these stones survived in the treasuries of the middle ages.

Abraxas appears on the seal of a Templar Grand Master in a French charter dated 1214...”

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The Lotus in Ancient Egypt

Excerpt from: http://ancientegypte.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-lotus-in-ancient-egypt.html “In Egypt, two native species of lotus grew, the white lotus (Nymphaea lotus) and the blue lotus (Nymphaea cerulea). A third type, the pink lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) was introduced into Egypt from Persia during the Late period. All three species were depicted in Egyptian art, with the pink lotus featured more in work of the Greco-Roman period under the reign of the Ptolemies. The sacred blue lotus was the flower most commonly used in earlier times and the one depicted in the hieroglyph of the ancient Egyptian word for lotus, Seshen. The white lotus blooms during the evening, giving it strong lunar associations. The flowers of the blue lotus seemed to close at night and sink beneath the water, in the morning they seemed to rise once again, opening to the sun. According to botanists what actually happens is that the flowers of the blue lotus close at night. The new buds form under the water and blossoms that have reached the end of their cycle sink back beneath the water. The lotus was the only flowering plant in Egypt that bloomed continously throughout the year. Because of this, the blue lotus became a natural solar symbol and was corresponded to the process of creation and the continuance of life. In Hermopolis, it was believed that a giant lotus blossom was the first expression of living form to emerge from the primordial waters of Nun. From this flower, in turn, the sun-god then came forth. Among the master works of art found in the tomb of Tutankhamun is a wooden carving of the head of the young king, represented as a boy of about nine or ten years of age. This expert sculpture depicts Tutankhamun as the Reborn Child, or Sun God rising from the petals of the sacred blue lotus, thus illustrating one of the most ancient of Egyptian texts. In describing the creation of the cosmos it says, “He who emerged from the lotus upon the High Mound, who illumines with his eyes, the Two Lands.”...”

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“I flew straight out of heaven, a mad bird full of secrets. I came into being as I came into being. I grew as I grew. I changed as I changed. My mind is fire, my soul is fire. I am the seed of every God, beautiful as evening, hard as light. I am the last four days of yesterday, four screams from the edges of the earth – beauty, terror, truth, madness – the phoenix on his pyre. I will live forever in the fire spun from my own wings. I destroy and create myself like the sun that rises burning from the East and dies burning in the West. To know the fire, I become the fire. I am power. I am light. I am forever. This is my deliverance. I am the fire that burns you, that burns in you. To live is to die a thousand deaths, but there is only one fire, one eternity.”— Bennu Hymn

“I know the cool Mind of the sky and the hot mysteries of earth. I am a blue heron, the messenger, a reborn and dying god.”— a phrase from the Hymn of the Bennu

“All Birds from others do derive their birth, But yet one Fowle there is in all the Earth, Call’d by th’ Assyrians Phoenix, who the wain Of age, repairs, and sows her self again.”

-Ovid of the Phoenix

Titles: “He Who Came Into Being by Himself” “Ascending One”

“The Bennu was considered the ba (soul) of the god Atum, Ra, or Osiris.”

“The Bennu was supposed to have rested on a sacred pillar that was known as the benben stone, breaking the primeval silence with a cry.” (Logos)

Painting: by Marina Petro http://fineartamerica.com/featured/phoenix-rising-marina-petro.html

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Benben stone from the Pyramid of Amenemhat III, 12th Dynasty. Egyptian museum, Cairo.

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In Bill's lounge, we also see a black pyramid on what looks like a map (Nile delta ?). The pyramid itself made us think about the Benben stone. 

The Benben stone

Heliopolis was a home to the sacred stone Benben and a famed Tree of Life. The only surviving remnant of Heliopolis is the Temple of Re-Atum obelisk.

The sacred Ished Tree, The Tree of Life, was the the Seat of the Bennu Bird (phoenix). The Tree was protected by the great Cat, a Symbol of Ra. Ancient Egyptian ritual required the names of each pharaoh to be inscribed on the leaves of this tree during the coronation ceremony. The fruit of the Tree of Life gave Eternal Life and the Knowledge of the Cycles.

In ancient Egypt, Benben was the mound that arose from the primordial waters, Nu, and on which the creator god Atum settled. In the Pyramid Texts, e.g. Utterances 587 and 600, Atum himself is at times referred to as "mound".

The prevailing theory on the design of monumental true pyramids is that their shape was modelled on Benben: a conical-shaped stone venerated in the ‘Mansion Of The Phoenix’ at Heliopolis (pyr. 1652). The ‘Mansion Of The Phoenix’ was presumably within the precinct of the Great Sun Temple of Heliopolis. Its conical shape and its association with the pyramid’s capstone - the latter a likely symbol of the star-soul of the departed pharaoh made of ‘iron bones’. It is recognised by many that the whole idea of the rebirth rites performed for dead pharaohs was intensely, if not mainly, stellar. The well-known archeoastronomer E.C. Krupp rightly noted that “the language of the stellar cycles appears to be interchangeable with the language of funeral rites” (Krupp, P.216). It is also generally accepted that the essence of the royal funerary rites was the re-enactment of the resurrection of Osiris, the latter having been revived after death by magical rites of ‘mummification’ performed by Isis. But this resurrection of Osiris as a ‘mummy’ is but an initial, partial stage of the magical rites, for the second and final stage was his self-transfiguration into a star-god, Sahu-Orion. According to many legends the Stone enlightened the person who was in its surroundings and produced a tremendous power. The Stone was also highly violent and distorting. It was impossible to be close to the Stone without the protection of magical rituals performed by the Priests. The stone was put into the King’s Chamber of the Pyramid of Gizeh for an initiation ceremony that transformed the Pharaoh into a Living God.

Why is the Benben Stone so Important?

When the World was almost Destroyed by the Great Deluge the Survivors detected the Cause of the Cataclysm.

The Deluge was part of a Cyclic Pattern that repeated itself every 12.594 years (half of a the Precession Cycle). The Myth of the Phoenix that came from the Land of Fire was an Important Story. The Phoenix landed on the Benben Stone in Heliopolis. It is believed that the the Phoenix will be looking for the Benben Stone to lay down its New Egg that will trigger a New Era of Mankind, the Age of Aquarius, the Water Bearer.

An interesting article about the origins of the Benben stone.